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Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey

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Durrell Wildlife Park, Jersey
Photo: Danrok, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

A zoo founded by the naturalist Gerald Durrell in 1959, devoted to breeding endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans, lemurs and Andean bears, in naturalistic enclosures in the grounds of a manor house.


The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust works around the world to save species. It's in Trinity parish, about 20 minutes from St Helier.

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